I think you make contribute to this site in many ways and are an important part of it.
I must strongly disagree. I think the only role Katz plays at Slashdot is in being the cash cow per se. Especially with the recent explosion of Salon.com style advertising on Slashdot, I think Katz articles are only there to generate massive hits. Genuine interest and genuine hatred results in numerous messages, flames or otherwise, all which generate quite a bit of money.
As far as Katz' writing style goes, I think it is absolutely horrible. It must be a massive ego trip for Katz being the only editor on Slashdot who can write a semi-coherent paragraph without major spelling and grammar mistakes. The problem there is Katz thinks he's extremely smart or something, searching for deep meanings in the most meaningless movies, and attempting to write eloquently but always coming up short.
I really don't know what it is about Katz' writing that really makes me think he tries to pretend to be well educated, but next time I see something, I'll point it out.
And considering that it would take a few million years to do so anyway, I don't think really matters whether it gets there or not. Let's all hope a comet hits it or something so we see something cool in our lifetime.
Re:...Unless you are on the receiving end of it
on
iWarez
·
· Score: 1
Hey and what about stupid dumbshit customers who know everything? I work for a small computer store occasionally as sales/techniciant, etc. and I always get dumbshits coming around acting as if we're all morons.
One guy asked me our price for some harddrive, I told him, and he goes "You dont know what you're talking about! The guys down the street sell it for $20 less!". If his statements made sense, I probably wouldn't have wanted to bash that many of his teeth in.
Please, next time you go to a computer store, remember, some of the employees are nerds just like you.
Agreed. After the "Who Shot Mr.Burns?" season, the Simpsons really began to suck, especially compared to other cartoons that began to show up, King of the Hill, Family Guy, Futurama, etc. It's time for FOX to kill the Simpsons, bring back Futurama and/or Family Guy, and make Malcolm in the Middle funny again.
I don't know...the first two seasons were absolutely great, but this season is pretty shitty really. I mean, did they even show the second part of the god-awful season premier?
They are not necessarily bugs as-is, but they become bugs once the pre-empt patches are in. It's like saying a desk is poorly built because it's wood isn't waterproof, even though it wasn't originally designed to be used under the rain.
Or you can just have a backup OpenBSD partition on your computer all the time. Set it to load by default, unless you enter in your password, in which case you can load an operating system of your choice. Of course, the theif won't know this password so he'll be loading up OpenBSD when it boots and just trying to figure out how the fuck to use it would be enough to make him/her _pay_ to return the computer.;-)
I think you might be confusing bits with bytes. Rogers here (Mississauga) theoretically gives us 3Mbs down/500kbs up, and that is close to the speeds I get if you convert bits to bytes naively. I've seen 300kBs+ down, and 50kBs up on my connection. Use Download Accelerator on a tucows mirror, multiply whatever number you get by 8 bits to get the bytes and I think you will get the >1.5Mbs you "never got".
Who gives a fuck who says what? Fuck marine biologists and and let them say whatever, cause I was thinking the exact same thing. What exactly made them call this a squid, rather than a jellyfish? I'm not questioning the marine biologist's decision, and I dont think TeaserX was either. What I'd like to know is what key differences might I have overlooked that gives us the differences between squid and jellyfish?
And sorry autopr0n, but you were being an ass. I figured slashdot, out of all places, would never question a question of authority. (Jee, it's the RECORD COMPANY that said mp3'z are ill3g4l. I think they know what they are talking about cause they know music!;-)
Re:Ease of copying killed the Dreamcast...
on
Sony vs Modchips
·
· Score: 1
Dude, you are just so cool now. I mean, atleast you got balls to admit you're a fucking thief, and that makes you just so much better than the rest of those who do, and damn hell yes, your actions are definitely justified by your confession now.
Can someone PLEASE explain to me why the Debian people don't just take the Mandrake, or SuSE, or Red Hat installers and modify it to install Debian?
Maybe because everyone thinks/knows their isntaller is better than the others'? It's the same argument with package formats, init-script style, filesystem layout, etc etc.
Writing another installer is just stupid. It's like writing another word processor.
I like being able to choose between Word/Wordperfect/Writer when I decide to write a document. This could be applied to here too -- for example, I think the Mandrake installer is a bloated POS, and would much rather have Debian's.
And what's worse is that it misses the whole point of having Free Software! Debian people should know better!
I think your argument is completely off the mark. The whole reason Free/OpenSource Software exists is to show that we have a choice. If all factions had the same stuff, what's the point of having the movement in the first place?
Mod this up. That's the first thing that popped to mind when I read this article. I mean, what's he doing now, connecting to the net on his C64? Baywatch/Temptation Island in _Afghanistan_? I'm positive the date isn't 4/1 so what is it I'm missing here?
Whether they choose it because they're brainwashed, or whether their 13-year old minds aren't capable of understanding other types of music is not the point. The fact still remains that pop music is what most people listen to. There is plenty of choice out there and whether you listen to Led Zeppelin or The Beatles, who mind you, were a pop group still with plenty of fans, is a choice.
All of your arguments can be used agains both. Marylin Manson and Rob Zombie sure aren't pop but I'd say their beats are pretty hypnotizing. And about selling Happy Meals? Sure pop is out there to sell, but anti-pop is just as big a market and they are simply cashing in on all the teenaged boys trying to be cool (if not, gimme another logical reason why people listen to Limp Bizkit).
Because that isn't what a parody is! Parodies take certain aspects (such as big breasts) and take them to the extreme, making it funny to people who realize that the creator/writer/author notices the absurdity of that particular aspect of whatever is being parodied.
I don't have any links for you but I recall theories that Sodom/Gommorah are/were around the Dead Sea area, and were covered by volcanic eruptions. Supposedly some sites were found, but again no verification of this.
The "slowness" of Windows XP has been one of the biggest arguments against it, but what people don't realize is that if you turn off all the funky effects, it's just as fast as win2k. Added to the new drivers, as you've mentioned, and the fast user-switching , XP is a godsend. If you need to run some version of windows, and money isn't an issue, get XP.
WW: I completely agree. The suggestive photography was simply unacceptable. I will not rest until T'Pol gives us FULL FRONTAL NUDITY!
Great response! We got more in common than I figured!;-)
Seriously, when I read on your site about you doing the thing for adueqacy.org, I was quite surprised considering how bullshit its content is. I figured it'd be a bunch of morons doing their usual Wil/Welsley bashing (which it actually was -- read the first comment), but atleast you held your part fairly well. Great job, although, I must say, the less people paying attention to that dump, the better off the world is.
Even thogh this is a joke, it does touch upon an important point that some replies apparently don't understand:
Partition type is different from partition format. ReiserFS, XFS, ext2, ext3, JFS are all partition formats and are the filesystems used on the disk. Partition type is only a number in the partition table, and in their Linux incarnations, all the aforementioned filesystems use type 83, simply indicating that partition is meant for Linux. You can call a partition type 69, and still format it with ext2 for all that it matters.
He's talking about them using the word combine. That original sentence is suggesting that the 10,000 PCs are being combined, physically or otherwise, in one second.
Considering a large majority of Linux and other alternative OS users are dual-booting, I think the need for a graphical boot loader is actually pretty big.
XOSL in particular is especially great because it lets me boot off a floppy/cdrom which is a lifesaver one of my other comp's with a fucked BIOS that can't change boot order. (Yeah I know grub can do it too, but it takes quite a few commands to do pull it off.)
Slashdot Mirror
I think you make contribute to this site in many ways and are an important part of it.
I must strongly disagree. I think the only role Katz plays at Slashdot is in being the cash cow per se. Especially with the recent explosion of Salon.com style advertising on Slashdot, I think Katz articles are only there to generate massive hits. Genuine interest and genuine hatred results in numerous messages, flames or otherwise, all which generate quite a bit of money.
As far as Katz' writing style goes, I think it is absolutely horrible. It must be a massive ego trip for Katz being the only editor on Slashdot who can write a semi-coherent paragraph without major spelling and grammar mistakes. The problem there is Katz thinks he's extremely smart or something, searching for deep meanings in the most meaningless movies, and attempting to write eloquently but always coming up short.
I really don't know what it is about Katz' writing that really makes me think he tries to pretend to be well educated, but next time I see something, I'll point it out.
And considering that it would take a few million years to do so anyway, I don't think really matters whether it gets there or not. Let's all hope a comet hits it or something so we see something cool in our lifetime.
Hey and what about stupid dumbshit customers who know everything? I work for a small computer store occasionally as sales/techniciant, etc. and I always get dumbshits coming around acting as if we're all morons.
One guy asked me our price for some harddrive, I told him, and he goes "You dont know what you're talking about! The guys down the street sell it for $20 less!". If his statements made sense, I probably wouldn't have wanted to bash that many of his teeth in.
Please, next time you go to a computer store, remember, some of the employees are nerds just like you.
Yeah man, along with Mozilla 0.6, and _maybe_ Gnome 1.4, that should be one smoking system!
Agreed. After the "Who Shot Mr.Burns?" season, the Simpsons really began to suck, especially compared to other cartoons that began to show up, King of the Hill, Family Guy, Futurama, etc. It's time for FOX to kill the Simpsons, bring back Futurama and/or Family Guy, and make Malcolm in the Middle funny again.
I don't know...the first two seasons were absolutely great, but this season is pretty shitty really. I mean, did they even show the second part of the god-awful season premier?
And a dozen more I dont feel like mentioning...
They are not necessarily bugs as-is, but they become bugs once the pre-empt patches are in. It's like saying a desk is poorly built because it's wood isn't waterproof, even though it wasn't originally designed to be used under the rain.
Or you can just have a backup OpenBSD partition on your computer all the time. Set it to load by default, unless you enter in your password, in which case you can load an operating system of your choice. Of course, the theif won't know this password so he'll be loading up OpenBSD when it boots and just trying to figure out how the fuck to use it would be enough to make him/her _pay_ to return the computer. ;-)
I'm too much of a pansy to disturb my prefectly configured Debian system, so can someone else install this and post screenshots?
I think you might be confusing bits with bytes. Rogers here (Mississauga) theoretically gives us 3Mbs down/500kbs up, and that is close to the speeds I get if you convert bits to bytes naively. I've seen 300kBs+ down, and 50kBs up on my connection. Use Download Accelerator on a tucows mirror, multiply whatever number you get by 8 bits to get the bytes and I think you will get the >1.5Mbs you "never got".
Who gives a fuck who says what? Fuck marine biologists and and let them say whatever, cause I was thinking the exact same thing. What exactly made them call this a squid, rather than a jellyfish? I'm not questioning the marine biologist's decision, and I dont think TeaserX was either. What I'd like to know is what key differences might I have overlooked that gives us the differences between squid and jellyfish?
;-)
And sorry autopr0n, but you were being an ass. I figured slashdot, out of all places, would never question a question of authority. (Jee, it's the RECORD COMPANY that said mp3'z are ill3g4l. I think they know what they are talking about cause they know music!
Dude, you are just so cool now. I mean, atleast you got balls to admit you're a fucking thief, and that makes you just so much better than the rest of those who do, and damn hell yes, your actions are definitely justified by your confession now.
Can someone PLEASE explain to me why the Debian people don't just take the Mandrake, or SuSE, or Red Hat installers and modify it to install Debian?
Maybe because everyone thinks/knows their isntaller is better than the others'? It's the same argument with package formats, init-script style, filesystem layout, etc etc.
Writing another installer is just stupid. It's like writing another word processor.
I like being able to choose between Word/Wordperfect/Writer when I decide to write a document. This could be applied to here too -- for example, I think the Mandrake installer is a bloated POS, and would much rather have Debian's.
And what's worse is that it misses the whole point of having Free Software! Debian people should know better!
I think your argument is completely off the mark. The whole reason Free/OpenSource Software exists is to show that we have a choice. If all factions had the same stuff, what's the point of having the movement in the first place?
Oh god I hope this guy keeps posting on all Jon Katz articles! Before this, I never really considered Katz that big a moron.
Don't bother replying to my question. I only now noticed the article was written by Jon Katz.
Mod this up. That's the first thing that popped to mind when I read this article. I mean, what's he doing now, connecting to the net on his C64? Baywatch/Temptation Island in _Afghanistan_? I'm positive the date isn't 4/1 so what is it I'm missing here?
Whether they choose it because they're brainwashed, or whether their 13-year old minds aren't capable of understanding other types of music is not the point. The fact still remains that pop music is what most people listen to. There is plenty of choice out there and whether you listen to Led Zeppelin or The Beatles, who mind you, were a pop group still with plenty of fans, is a choice.
All of your arguments can be used agains both. Marylin Manson and Rob Zombie sure aren't pop but I'd say their beats are pretty hypnotizing. And about selling Happy Meals? Sure pop is out there to sell, but anti-pop is just as big a market and they are simply cashing in on all the teenaged boys trying to be cool (if not, gimme another logical reason why people listen to Limp Bizkit).
Because that isn't what a parody is! Parodies take certain aspects (such as big breasts) and take them to the extreme, making it funny to people who realize that the creator/writer/author notices the absurdity of that particular aspect of whatever is being parodied.
I don't have any links for you but I recall theories that Sodom/Gommorah are/were around the Dead Sea area, and were covered by volcanic eruptions. Supposedly some sites were found, but again no verification of this.
The "slowness" of Windows XP has been one of the biggest arguments against it, but what people don't realize is that if you turn off all the funky effects, it's just as fast as win2k. Added to the new drivers, as you've mentioned, and the fast user-switching , XP is a godsend. If you need to run some version of windows, and money isn't an issue, get XP.
WW: I completely agree. The suggestive photography was simply unacceptable. I will not rest until T'Pol gives us FULL FRONTAL NUDITY!
;-)
Great response! We got more in common than I figured!
Seriously, when I read on your site about you doing the thing for adueqacy.org, I was quite surprised considering how bullshit its content is. I figured it'd be a bunch of morons doing their usual Wil/Welsley bashing (which it actually was -- read the first comment), but atleast you held your part fairly well. Great job, although, I must say, the less people paying attention to that dump, the better off the world is.
Even thogh this is a joke, it does touch upon an important point that some replies apparently don't understand:
Partition type is different from partition format. ReiserFS, XFS, ext2, ext3, JFS are all partition formats and are the filesystems used on the disk. Partition type is only a number in the partition table, and in their Linux incarnations, all the aforementioned filesystems use type 83, simply indicating that partition is meant for Linux. You can call a partition type 69, and still format it with ext2 for all that it matters.
He's talking about them using the word combine. That original sentence is suggesting that the 10,000 PCs are being combined, physically or otherwise, in one second.
Considering a large majority of Linux and other alternative OS users are dual-booting, I think the need for a graphical boot loader is actually pretty big.
XOSL in particular is especially great because it lets me boot off a floppy/cdrom which is a lifesaver one of my other comp's with a fucked BIOS that can't change boot order. (Yeah I know grub can do it too, but it takes quite a few commands to do pull it off.)